By HEIDI M. MARSTON Print this article Josh Winer’s show at Clifford Smith Gallery exhibits 30” x 40 “ C–prints of piles of sand and gravel. The photographs, shot with a 4×5 camera and mounted on aluminum, are reminiscent of…
By KIMBERLY POTVIN Print this article Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850, which was greeted, at the time, with great anticipation and enthusiasm, especially considering the alluring subject matter; that of America’s Puritan past and the eternally interesting…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article Ken Feingold is an artist whose work has explored the communicative capacity of video installation, web-based programming, and “cinematic sculpture.” Feingold is a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the…
By BIG RED Print this article ‘The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus. In single file they eased around the orange I-beam sculpture and moved toward the dormitories. The roofs of…
Gallery @ Green Street Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION
September 10, 2004 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION
By BIG RED Print this article Nearly a decade has passed since Malcom Rogers arrived in Boston to become one of the most controversial directors in history at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many supporters claim that Rogers’s unorthodox…
By BIG RED Print this article On September 15, the Institute of Contemporary Art broke ground on the construction of its new building. The fantastic structure, which appears to defy both gravity and logic, will be on Fan Pier in…
By BIG RED PUBLISHER Print this article I just wanted to take a few moments, here at the start of autumn, to open the doors of Big RED to all of you, our loyal Big RED fans. As you know,…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article For the next month, the gallery at The Distillery in South Boston is home to the abstract works of Patrick Maloney and Michael Mullaney. At times bright and colorful, sometimes somber and muted, always…
By MICAH J. MALONE Print this article The brand new gallery GASP, founded by Magda Campos-Pons, has opened in Brookline and should be a venue to watch in the coming year. For the opening debut, Evelyn Rydz has assembled Blurring…
By BIG RED Print this article Following up on a previous news story, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been criticzed by the The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), for having loaned 21 of its 36 Monet paintings…
By BIG RED Print this article Are you an upstart artist just getting going in the beginning of your career, only to find you should be concerned about retirement? Do you lack the investment capital because you’re using it next…
By BIG RED Print this article This past July, Dr. Steven Kurtz, member of the performance-based Critical Art Ensemble was arraigned on four counts of mail and wire fraud, and, if convicted, could serve up to 80 years in federal…
By MATTHEW GAMBER Print this article What does it mean to understand the concept of place and how do we define it? Cultural essayist J. B. Jackson described the origin of the idea in our modern lexicon — to define…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article Here in town this summer, Company One staged their take on Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. The play, modified from Burgess’s own stage play, was produced at the Boston Center for the Arts. Company…
By NATALIE LOVELESS Print this article Let me begin with a quotation: What abstraction once tried to pull off is in fact being accomplished before our very eyes: the end of REPRESENTATIVE art and the substitution…of a PRESENTATIVE art…. (a)…
By BIG RED Print this article TOM RIDGE’S THE VILLAGE by MATTHEW NASH MOTION SICKNESS & THE BOURNE SUPREMACY by JASON DEAN SPIDERMAN 2: THE CHRISTIAN HERO by BEN SLOAT SCI-FI TRADITION & THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK by MATTHEW NASH…
By BIG RED Print this article Many former industrial towns over the past fifty years have experienced slow deaths. When the main employer for the town shuts down it slowly tugs the supporting social and economic climate into its vortex,…
By BIG RED PUBLISHER Print this article That’s right, more new editors for Big RED! Starting with Issue #9, we are proud to announce that the team of Christophe Perez and April Julich Perez will be joining Big RED and…